dc.creatorFabricius, Gabriel
dc.creatorStariolo, Daniel A.
dc.date2002-09-10
dc.date2021-10-05T17:41:49Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-15T03:35:24Z
dc.date.available2023-07-15T03:35:24Z
dc.identifierhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/126264
dc.identifierissn:1063-651x
dc.identifierissn:1095-3787
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/7466288
dc.descriptionWe analyze through molecular dynamics simulations of a Lennard-Jones (LJ) binary mixture the statistics of the distances between inherent structures sampled at temperatures above the mode coupling transition temperature T<sub>MCT</sub>. After equilibrating at T>T<sub>MCT</sub> we take equilibrated configurations and randomly perturb the coordinates of a given number of particles. After that we find the nearby inherent structures (IS) of both the original and perturbed configurations and evaluate the distance between them. This distance presents an inflection point at T<sub>li</sub> approximately 1 with a strong decrease below this temperature which goes to a small but nonzero value on approaching T<sub>MCT</sub>. In the low-temperature region we study the statistics of events which give zero distance, i.e., dominated by minima, and find evidence that the number of saddles decreases exponentially near T<sub>MCT</sub>. This implies that saddles continue to exist even at T<or=T<sub>MCT</sub>. As at T<sub>MCT</sub> the diffusivity goes to zero, our results imply that there are saddles associated with nondiffusive events at T<T<sub>MCT</sub>.
dc.descriptionDepartamento de Física
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.languageen
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
dc.subjectFísica
dc.subjectCiencias Exactas
dc.subjectmolecular dynamics
dc.subjectinherent structures
dc.subjectsimple glass former
dc.titleDistance between inherent structures and the influence of saddles on approaching the mode coupling transition in a simple glass former
dc.typeArticulo
dc.typeArticulo


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